+speakers-corner Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I was also thinking along those lines. I know some oft Thema drive indy-cars AS well. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 (edited) They were all world Champions. Edited July 31, 2014 by speakers-corner Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Chequered flag to crb11 They all had sons who followed in their footsteps. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Thanks! A bit of a change of topic now. Two Beatles songs feature someone fixing footwear late at night. Name either. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Do socks count? If they do then Father McKenzie doing some darning in Eleanor Rigby. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 That's one of the two! Ding. (The other is Lady Madonna mending stockings.) Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Thank you. Frank, Jack, Joe, Arthur, George, James and Charles. Who? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Thank you. Frank, Jack, Joe, Arthur, George, James and Charles. Who? Pike, Jones, Walker, Wilson, Mainwaring, Frazer, Godfrey. Walmington-on-sea home guard. Dad's Army. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 So quick that you just get a D.. All yours. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 wow, that was quick. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Well Dad's Army is kind of my specialist subject anyway, onwards: What would you do with a maulstick? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Painters stick, used to steady the hand Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Another quick one, DING.... Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 “Jaws 2” was on TV last night, which has given me the idea for this next question. Which actor played Jaws? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I know who it is. He was in Moonraker and the spy who loved me. But I dont know his name. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I know who it is. He was in Moonraker and the spy who loved me. But I dont know his name. You are on the right track, but no ding for that. Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Think that would be Richard Kiel. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Think that would be Richard Kiel. Ding Ding Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Thank you. The three (non fishy) actors who starred in the film version of Jaws were who? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Richard Dreyfus Robert Shaw Roy Schneider Not sure about a couple of the speelings :-) Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 As you say, a couple of typos but not enough to stop you getting the DEENG. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 "You're gonna need a bigger Ding" Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I'll set the next question, to keep this thread going. I hope MartyBartfast doesn't mind. If all the Commonwealth games medals ever awarded to each individual country/territory were converted to one point for bronze, two for silver and three for gold ('medal points'), and the population divided by the medal points total, which country/territory would score the highest and in what single sport have they won all their medals? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Nauru, and weightlifting. Most of them from one person too, who subsequently became their President. Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Not sure what's happened to Yorkshire Yellow, but here's the BBC analysis which confirms the answer: BBC news site. Another politician who was better known for his other career was Jan Paderewski, first Prime Minister of Poland after it was reconstituted after WWI. But what was he famous for? Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Not sure what's happened to Yorkshire Yellow, but here's the BBC analysis which confirms the answer: BBC news site. Another politician who was better known for his other career was Jan Paderewski, first Prime Minister of Poland after it was reconstituted after WWI. But what was he famous for? Concert pianist? Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Plink! Molto presto. That's what I was looking for. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Ta! Change of tack - cinema: What film of 1968 set in the 41st Century starred Jane Fonda and Milo O'Shea? Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Barbarella now thers a blast from the past Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Not sure what's happened to Yorkshire Yellow, but here's the BBC analysis which confirms the answer: BBC news site. I've been working and then without internet access. A belated ding! Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Barbarella now thers a blast from the past ....and a pan galactic gargle blastering ding to you guys!! Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 thanks for the ding What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B.C.? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 If this doesn't work, I'll give in. I've tried entering just a zero ("0") four times and the forum software has rejected my post. I guess it doesn't like it if you just enter nothing! Quote Link to comment
+crb11 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 He indeed gave nothing to the world around 800BC as he wouldn't be alive for over 1500 years. I think you mean about AD800! (Pajaholic has it.) Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 If this doesn't work, I'll give in. I've tried entering just a zero ("0") four times and the forum software has rejected my post. I guess it doesn't like it if you just enter nothing! crb11 He indeed gave nothing to the world around 800BC as he wouldn't be alive for over 1500 years. I think you mean about AD800! (Pajaholic has it.) That’s a ding for getting Nothing right Pajaholic And I did mean 800 BC crb11 Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Thanks! Staying with mathematics: Name a mathematical method that John Napier gave to us. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 That'll get you the ding! Over to TheOldfields... Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Hmmm. As we're back in the land of maths.... what's the formula to calculate the volume of a sphere? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 (edited) four thirds of the cube of the radius of the sphere times pi Edited August 8, 2014 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
+TheOldfields Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 ...would be a nice quick ding. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Thanks. On to an allied topic: In scientific and engineering terms, velocity is the first derivative of position (i.e. v = dx/dt); acceleration is the second derivative (or rate of change of velocity -- i.e. a = dv/dt). For the ding, what is the third derivative of position (or rate of change of acceleration) called? For a bonus point, what is the fourth derivative (rate of change of the answer above) called? Quote Link to comment
+Pan314159 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Thanks. On to an allied topic: In scientific and engineering terms, velocity is the first derivative of position (i.e. v = dx/dt); acceleration is the second derivative (or rate of change of velocity -- i.e. a = dv/dt). For the ding, what is the third derivative of position (or rate of change of acceleration) called? For a bonus point, what is the fourth derivative (rate of change of the answer above) called? The 3rd is Jerk, and the 4th is called Jounce or Snap. Fun fact: the 4th, 5th, and 6th are sometimes called Snap, Crackle, and Pop. Haven't though of this stuff since University (physics degree). Never thought I'd remember this stuff. I guess it's because of the advert. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 DING! FWIW, I was all primed to ponder on which came first, the physics or the breakfast cereal! Over to Pan314159 ... Quote Link to comment
+Pan314159 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Ok... Sticking with the current thread... What do you get if you take an object's first derivative of position and multiply it by it's mass? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Ok... Sticking with the current thread... What do you get if you take an object's first derivative of position and multiply it by it's mass? Momentum. Funnily enough, I was looking over a puzzle cache yesterday that covered this sort of ground. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Originally, many years ago, the forerunner to this thread (accidently locked by an over enthusiastic, inexperienced but well meaning moderator) set simple rules - one of which I recently posted here - all about the questions being of a standard that could be answered in your average pub quiz. Some of you must drink in pubs whose clientele are exceptionally gifted Oxbridge dons or PhDs!! :lol: Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Originally, many years ago, the forerunner to this thread (accidently locked by an over enthusiastic, inexperienced but well meaning moderator) set simple rules - one of which I recently posted here - all about the questions being of a standard that could be answered in your average pub quiz. Some of you must drink in pubs whose clientele are exceptionally gifted Oxbridge dons or PhDs!! :lol: I don't know what you mean... these questions come up quite regularly in the pub quiz at my local, the Higgs & Boson ;-) Fair point, although momentum is covered in the A level Further Maths Syllabus (and I dare say Physics too) I'm sure it was touched on when I did GCSE Science in the 90s. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I don't know what you mean... these questions come up quite regularly in the pub quiz at my local, the Higgs & Boson ;-) :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment
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